Memories Beach: Thailand's Up-and-Coming Surf Paradise
Tucked away along the pristine Andaman coast, Memories Beach in Phang Nga province is quietly carving out a reputation as Thailand’s best surf destination.
Regional and local news from across Thailand's provinces — in English, from Thai PBS World, Thailand's public broadcaster.
Tucked away along the pristine Andaman coast, Memories Beach in Phang Nga province is quietly carving out a reputation as Thailand’s best surf destination.
Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra apologised today to people suffering from the severe flooding in Phrae province, explaining that she is unable to travel there as planned due to the weather conditions.
Flood water in the northern provinces of Chiang Rai, Phrae and Nan is receding, allowing residents to start cleaning up and removing sediment from their houses.
Twelve bodies have been recovered, one person is still missing and ten others have been injured in mud slides in nine villages in Phuket’s Mueang district, following several days of heavy rain.
Seven Myanmar migrant workers were killed and about ten others have gone missing after the houses in which they were living were hit by landslide, following heavy rain this morning in Phuket.
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra has recommended that the Bank of Thailand reduce the withholding tax collected from commercial banks by half, so that the banks will have more liquidity with which to extend more housing and car loans.
Human remains have been found at the crash site of a small plane in a mangrove swamp in Bang Pa Kong district of Chachoengsao. The search continued into last night and resumed today.
The National Water Resources Office has issued advice to residents in 35 provinces, excluding the central region, to brace for flash floods and overflows from Saturday until the end of the month, due to a looming monsoon trough and the escalating southwestern monsoon, which will bring more rain to most of the country.
Thailand on Wednesday reported a suspected first case of the new more dangerous strain of mpox, which the World Health Organization has declared a global public health emergency.
The World Cat Federation (WCF), at its General Assembly in Germany, has recognised the rare Suphalak cat (Maew Suphalak) as an ancient Thai breed.
Leading virologist Dr. Yong Poovorawan stressed today the urgent need for close surveillance in Thailand of the ‘Clade 1b’ variant of Mpox (monkeypox), which is now spreading across parts of central and east Africa.
Two people are missing, believed to have drowned, and two others were injured when a jet ski collided with a long-tailed boat on the Chao Phraya River in Phra Pradaeng district of Samut Prakan Saturday night.